all i know is that they used to be peach baskets.
When basketball was first made it was used for a gym game and they put baskets on top of poles, that is where the name came from.
Score(baskets), or S(b)
Peach baskets were nailed onto a 10 foot high track. The bottoms were left on the baskets so each time a shot was good the ball would have to be retrieved from the basket.
Basketball started off with just two peach baskets so I would think so
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They used peach baskets
Because when basketball was first played they used peach baskets. Thus, The name BASKETball.
In December or 1891, James Naismith. (from Basketball for Dummies, pg.27)
Two interesting facts about the history of basketball are a man who went by the name of Dr. James Naismith created the game. He used two ladders, a YMCA gymnasium, and two peach baskets to create a distraction for a rowdy class. Also, once basketball became an actual game the color of the basketball was a shade of brown. Later, it was changed to a bright color. Thus, the orange basketball was born!
all i know is that they used to be peach baskets.
The basketball was first discovered by a man named Dr. James Naismith. He taught at the YMCA training school in Springfield Massachusetts. He used peach baskets as the goals. The peach baskets then had the bottoms of them removed so that the ball could swish through the baskets instead of hitting the bottom.
Two baskets and a basketball.
When basketball was first made it was used for a gym game and they put baskets on top of poles, that is where the name came from.
For the first game of basketball in 1891, two half-bushel peach baskets were used as the goals, which gave the sport its name.
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